I have been scrutinizing the research on single parents and their children for more than a decade. I’ve learned lots of things, but perhaps the most important one is this: all those predictions you hear about how the children of single parents are doomed are grossly exaggerated or just plain wrong.

For many (though not all) of my e-books, I have the option to put them on sale for seven days, several times a year. One of those weeks is starting today, June 13, 2015, I think at 8 a.m. (If you are reading this after June 20, 2015, this particular sale is over but the regular prices of all of these books are still affordable.)

These are Kindle countdown sales. The way they work is that the prices of the books are at their very lowest (99 cents) on the first day, then gradually increase over the course of the week to their usual list price. The sale is ongoing at both the US and the UK Amazon sites.

I sometimes get inquiries from people asking if some book of mine is available in some other language. It always breaks my heart when I have to say that it is not. That changed when I discovered a site that is a true treasure for translators and authors like me who want their books translated. Babelcube is a platform where authors can list books they would like to have translated and translators can find books they want to translate. In this post, I will include links to all of my books that have been translated into other languages, by Babelcube and other publishers.

Singled Out, for example, has been translated into Spanish, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. (Scroll to the end of the post to find the Japanese translation.)

I’ve just put together a collection of 65 of my writings on single life in a book called The Best of Single Life. I think these are some of my most empowering articles, making a strong positive and utterly undefensive case for single life as the good life. In the book, I explain what I think is best about single life, for those who are as enthusiastic about living single as I am, as well as for those who do not want to stay single, but do want to live their single lives to the fullest while they are single.

The Best of Single Life is available in paperback here and here, and as an ebook here. The book includes 8 sections:

Why Singles Are Thriving – Despite All You’ve Heard to the Contrary

Single Life: We Chose It

Mocking Those ‘Why Are You Single’ Lists

The Good Life and the Successful Life

Savoring Our Solitude: Choosing to Spend Time Alone

Valuing Our Relationships: Choosing to Spend Time with Others

Sex and the Single Person: Have It Your Way – or Just Skip It

Are We Missing Out by Being Single – or Are They?

Here’s a sampling of some of the 65 articles in the collection:

7 secrets of successful single people

Who wrote the book of love? Happy single people

Fear not: The advantages of people unafraid to be single

Are single people more resilient than everyone else?

Why aren’t married people any happier than singles? A Nobel Prize winner’s answer

Wedding porn doesn’t turn us on: Age at first marriage has never been higher

The last ‘why are you single’ list you will ever need

Elements of the good life: Our list is too short

Sweet solitude: The benefits it brings and the special strengths of the people who enjoy it

The happy loner

Best things about living alone – for people who mean it

Single, no children: Who’s your family?

If you are single, will you grow old alone? Results from 6 nations

Who keeps siblings together when they become adults?

Bigger, broader meanings of love and romance

Getting married and getting sex (or not)

Asexuals: Who are they and why are they important?

Are monogamous relationships really better?

23 ways singles are better

What you miss by doing what everyone else does

Top 8 reasons not to marry

Keeping marriage alive with affairs, asexuality, polyamory, and living apart

Psychology journals are overflowing with articles about loneliness, and have been for decades. Recently, scholars are starting to study solitude, in the sense of the positive aspects of being alone. Take a look at what we know so far. Also take a look at Alone: The badass psychology of people who like being alone.